.TH SMEDIT 1 "Tue Nov 3 1992" "\&\(co Bob Hepple"
.\" $Id: boiler.1,v 1.3 2004/07/11 08:04:47 bhepple Exp $
.UC 4
.SH NAME
smedit \- a very simple visual editor for text
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B smedit
[
.B \-m|f
]
[
.B \-v
]
.I file
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B smedit
provides an extremely simple (and simple to use) full screen editor
for ascii text files. By use of the
.B "Screen Manager"
softkey labels, the user is quided through the various editing
operations such as \fISearch, Search & Replace etc\fR.
.LP
The
.B -v
option provides a read-only file viewer suitable for scanning ascii
files. If
.B smedit
is linked (or copied) to another file whose name contains
.I 'pg'
or
.IR 'more' ,
and run from that file, then the
.B -v
option is default. e.g. linking to \fI'smpg'\fR and running as
\fI'smpg'\fR will invoke with the
.B -v 
option.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B TMP
If specified, temporary files (if used) are put here. Otherwise /tmp
is used.
.TP
.B SHELL
Used by the global command SM_SHELL_C (usually bound to Meta-!) if set
otherwise /bin/sh is used.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Postscript version of these man pages which have screenshots -
probably in /usr/share/doc/scrmgr-X.Y.
.LP
.so boiler.lst
.SH BUGS
All tab characters are quietly converted to spaces on input. Other
control characters are not handled gracefully.
.LP
Only one file can be viewed at a time.
.SH AUTHOR
Bob Hepple <bhepple@freeshell.org>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 1991-2002 Bob Hepple
